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Predictably, some in the media sprinted to their corners minutes after news broke on Sunday that multiple Baton Rouge, Louisiana police officers had been shot dead with an MSNBC guest lashing out at “maniacs running around our country saying crazy things” concerning President Barack Obama and not individuals committing such atrocities but the guns they’re able to use to carry them out.
Former NYPD officer Eugene O’Donnell was speaking to MSNBC’s chief legal correspondent Ari Melber on the phone when he properly noted that “more than ever, we need to try to see past this lunacy, and still protect the community that overwhelming trusts and needs them.”